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See all- LAG Presents: Geoff Johnson & Shehzad NagiGlasgow, Glasgow
TALK 1:
Exploring DORA: Can DevOps capability metrics help drive better agile practices?This talk will introduce Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment programme's 4 key metrics, explain how the 31 capabilities relate to lean agile principles and showcase how a multinational organisation is using them to improve performance.
They’ve iterated from a self-assessment model where engineers and product folk could check their own performance and trawl a knowledge base of documented good practice with examples to deriving metrics from engineering and product artefacts, using AI-enabled search to deliver more complete answers and working on tools to better enable connection and learning with others working on the similar challenges.
Geoff will share the lessons learned and talk about issues which have yet to be resolved.Participant takeaways:
- Introduction to the DORA metrics
- How DORA capabilities map to lean agile principles
- How is a multinational enterprise adopting DORA principles to improve agile practices and organisational performance
- The relative challenges and benefits of qualitative self-assessment vs engineering artefact-derived empirical scoring
Themes:
DORA, DevOps, Enterprise, Metrics, Management, Culture, Improvement, Learning Organisation.####
About the speaker: Geoff Johnson
Geoff is a professional, delivery-focussed, expert product and digital delivery manager with extensive, user-centric, service design, software development and business change experience within commercial and government sectors.He has a proven track record of delivering quality product within agile development environments including, where necessary helping to improve the maturity of the agile approach within the business. His focus is helping organisations to identify and deliver value quickly.
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TALK 2: Architecture is an elephant: Slow to move as it grow older
Architecture is often viewed like a herd of elephants, unable to change direction easily and becoming slower, or left behind as they grow older.
This session will explore how the agile manifesto can help architectures develop and mature over time. Able to react to change of directions.
Able to replace parts of the system easily and frequently without depending on a transformational budget. Architecture that is versatile, and able to evolve, while resilient enough to not degrade after a few changes.Using examples from across industries, we will explore how to understand and relate ourselves to versatility and resilience which participants can associate with.
Participant takeaways:
- Treat architecture as a first-class citizen of the agile process
- Be fearless to be change and challenge
- Design for reversibility, emergent architecture
- Architecture doesn’t reside in ivory towers, they are part of an agile team from inception to delivery
Themes:
Architecture, Application Designs, Digital Transformation, Systems Thinking, Design Process, Solutions Focus.####
About the speaker: Shehzad Nagi
Shehzad has almost 20 years of experience in technology with the last 10 years working with various public and private sector clients on developing resilient and scalable architectures.He started as a developer in a Fintech AI research startup before moving into consulting, supporting and guiding various organisations through technology and delivery challenges whilst working on large-scale projects.
Shehzad loves developing high-performance teams with senior leader role in delivery teams and build iterative and “Just enough designs” to build the right solution.
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Morning Lean Coffee (http://leancoffee.org/) is an open opportunity to discuss Lean and Agile ideas, challenges and solutions with people across organisations but with similar interests and goals.
Everyone is welcome and we usually have a good mix of people from different backgrounds so if you have something you'd like to talk about, or you just want to listen and learn, then please join us.
We run this as a zoom event, with the link appearing for confirmed attendees in the event invite shortly before the event starts.
We also use Lean Coffee Table (https://www.leancoffeetable.com/) as our remote Sharpie and Post-it replacement!
If you don't already have a leancoffeetable.com account, you can sign in with your corporate GSuite or Office 365 login, or just join as a guest on the day. The link to the board will be shared at the start of the session.
The Lean Coffee session will run from 7.45am until 8.45am, but the zoom room will be open from around 7.30am for waking-up chat, so grab a coffee and we will see you there!
The Lean Agile Glasgow Team
Code of Conduct
Lean Agile Glasgow has a Code of Conduct that attendees must abide by. Please ensure you have familiarized yourself with it before attending.
- Breakfast Lean CoffeeLink visible for attendees
Morning Lean Coffee (http://leancoffee.org/) is an open opportunity to discuss Lean and Agile ideas, challenges and solutions with people across organisations but with similar interests and goals.
Everyone is welcome and we usually have a good mix of people from different backgrounds so if you have something you'd like to talk about, or you just want to listen and learn, then please join us.
We run this as a zoom event, with the link appearing for confirmed attendees in the event invite shortly before the event starts.
We also use Lean Coffee Table (https://www.leancoffeetable.com/) as our remote Sharpie and Post-it replacement!
If you don't already have a leancoffeetable.com account, you can sign in with your corporate GSuite or Office 365 login, or just join as a guest on the day. The link to the board will be shared at the start of the session.
The Lean Coffee session will run from 7.45am until 8.45am, but the zoom room will be open from around 7.30am for waking-up chat, so grab a coffee and we will see you there!
The Lean Agile Glasgow Team
Code of Conduct
Lean Agile Glasgow has a Code of Conduct that attendees must abide by. Please ensure you have familiarized yourself with it before attending.